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In 1700 B.C.E. the Romans started to have public health and sanitations systems.
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The Father of Medicine, Hippocrates lived from 460 B.C.E. - 377 B.C.E.
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The ancient Egyptians are the first to maintain accurate health records.
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The Chinese began using acupuncture around the Stone Age (2000 BCE) though the time is not exact. It was used to relieve pain and congestion.
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Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited. Many plagues took place during this time period.
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Around 1284 in Italy, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses.
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Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw the human body, and in 1487 he drew the famous Vitruvian Man
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Zacharias Jansenn
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William Harvey published his book on the circulation of blood.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created what is to be considered the first modern thermometer.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal lenses because was tired of switching glasses for seeing far away and up close.
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796.
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Rene Laennec invented it and it consisted of a wooden tube and was monaural
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Florence Nightengale got her first job as a nurse in 1851 and continued to improve the idea of nursing for hospitals.
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Louis Pasteur beings pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria in1862
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Gregory Mendel explained this conceived the concept of heredity units, (genes). These often expressed dominant or recessive characteristics. He then worked out the pattern of inheritance of various traits and produced two generalisations that became known as the laws of heredity.
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British Surgeon Joseph Lister began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881
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Robert Koch developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens in 1881
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Daniel Hale Williams repaired the torn pericardium of a knife would patient on July 10, 1893 at Provident Hospital on Chicago. The patient recovered about 55 days later.
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William Roentgen found that X-Rays would pass through human tissue leaving the bones and metals visible.
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Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris.
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Earle Dickson invented the band-aid in 1921.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered that penicillin is an antibacterial agent that could kill disease-causing bacteria.
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In 1952 Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio
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Christian Bainard performed the first heart transplant, the patient died 18 days later.
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The first modern car was invented by Karl Benz in 1886. This helped to be able to transport medicine and patients.
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In the year 860 AD, an Arabian physician mixed lime with egg white to create a hard mixture, prior to plaster.
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Rhazes was credited as the first to use animal gut for suture material